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    Does Restoring With Factory Recovery Discs Wipe Hard Drive For Good?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ItzCooLz, Feb 21, 2009.

  1. ItzCooLz

    ItzCooLz Notebook Consultant

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    I just sold a used laptop of mine, and I am going to restoring it back to its original configuration using the recovery discs (i fiddled around with linux at one point, so the master boot record is all jacked up to try and just the RnR partition alone without the discs).

    will this shred all the files so that they can't be recovered by the buyer? Or will i have to go through the extra step of shredding the files?

    Thanks!
     
    ItzCooLz, Feb 21, 2009
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Which one machine is it?
     
    ZaZ, Feb 21, 2009
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  3. ItzCooLz

    ItzCooLz Notebook Consultant

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    it is a Z61t that I just sold.
     
    ItzCooLz, Feb 21, 2009
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  4. jaredy

    jaredy Notebook Virtuoso

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    It will not wipe the drive "for good" but it will be good enough for your purposes. Unless you have some super crazy sensitive material, then you can really shred up the drive with special utilities that make data recovery almost impossible.
     
    jaredy, Feb 21, 2009
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  5. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    If you want to truly wipe the drive, I would suggest using Darik's boot and Nuke. However, you must make recovery discs BEFORE YOU RUN DBAN, because this will wipe the recovery partition as well.
     
    jonlumpkin, Feb 21, 2009
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